got a good bit of the mod_parrot configure system refactored. it's working on jhorwitz's machine. need to do a little more work before merging to trunk, then extend to other platforms including windows.

hackathon was productive: helped ewilhelm and schwern with the rakudo test suite, had good language discussions with pmichaud and timtoady, addressed ugliness in the Pair pmc with chromatic and allison.

met with microsoft open source software lab yesterday (cotto++ for setting it up). they're quite interested in helping parrot foundation out. i'll announce specifics as they're made clear, which i expect to happen before the end of august.

hmm. semi-related question: when I review a patch and I have a question or comment (like "gimme a test case"), I usually just find the submitter on IRC and bug them there. is that ok, or should I try to reply in RT instead?